# Frank Nawabi

> Frank Nawabi is a pre-seed investor at Tenor backing Software and Point of Sale. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Tenor](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tenor-inc)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/franknawabi

Frank Nawabi is a pre-seed investor at Tenor in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Point of Sale. Frank Nawabi is the co-founder of Tenor, which has built the largest mobile GIF sharing audience in the world, with more than 150 million people making billions of searches per month. Along with top-downloaded mobile apps, Tenor powers GIF sharing for leading mobile services like Facebook Messenger, Kik and Google’s Gboard.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 1 | 100% |
| Point of Sale | 1 | 100% |
| Food and Beverage | 1 | 100% |
| Consumer Applications | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Opaper | Opaper offers solutions to automate the operational processes of restaurants and cafes, from receiving and making orders to eating on the spot, taking, or sending them. Clients can save operational expenses and optimize existing human resources by utilizing Opaper's operational system. Clients can use Opaper to increase sales, streamlinebusiness operations, and gain more loyal customers. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Mar 10, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [On Deck](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/on-deck-a441) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Plug and Play](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/plug-and-play-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Precursor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/precursor-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ratio](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ratio-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Tenor

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Tenor has more than 12 billion monthly searches and 300 million monthly users, Tenor is the largest & fastest growing mobile GIF search engine. In a world that largely operates through texts and social media messages, Tenor adds emotion to digital conversations by helping people find the perfect GIF to communicate their mood and personality.Tenor has used its 12B monthly search requests to build the Tenor Emotional Graph, which powers the #1 GIF Keyboard app and GIF sharing for partners including iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google Gboard, Kik, and others. In 2017, Tenor launched the first branded GIF program, which companies like Dunkin Donuts, Nissan, AT&T, and Wendy’s have joined to connect authentically with mobile audiences.

5 contacts available at Tenor.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Frank Nawabi | Co-Founder & Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-nawabi |
| David McIntosh | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-mcintosh |
| Erick Hachenburg | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-hachenburg |
| Jake Rogers | Head of HR/Recruiting | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-rogers-5fb3 |
| Kyler Blue | Head of Product | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kyler-blue |

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## FAQ

### What does Frank Nawabi invest in?

Frank Nawabi invests primarily in Software, Point of Sale and Food and Beverage startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Indonesia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Frank Nawabi last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Frank Nawabi closed in Mar 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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